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Surprise and tantalise your guests with The Surprise Sopranos singing waiters and waitresses! The act consists of a singing Chef, Maitre d, Waitress or Guest. You have the option of the act with 2 singers (2 little maids) or 3 singers (3 little maids). The Surprise Sopranos have just returned from singing at Micheal Schumachers retirement party in Italy, and earlier this year they performed for Sheffield United FCs player of the year awards.

*Watch yor guests faces as the completely unexpected happens*

Surprise and tantalise your guests with The Surprise Sopranos singing waiters and waitresses!

The act consists of a singing Chef, Maître d’, Waitress or Guest. You have the option of the act with 2 singers (2 little maids) or 3 singers (3 little maids).

The Two Little Maids: This act contains the Singing Chef and Maître d’ characters. The Maître d’ appears throughout the whole of your meal, making sure your guests truly believe she is in charge of the catering staff at your event. At some point during the meal she makes an announcement that the Chef who prepared the meal, will be leaving the catering company to return to her native Italy. She brings up the Chef, who very bashfully thanks her and the catering company. She then seizes this as her opportunity to do what she has always wanted to do- and bursts into song!

The Maître d’ catching the end of the Chef’s display, storms up to her and banishes her back to the kitchen. She insists that she must somehow make up for the Chef’s behaviour by bursting into song herself! The Chef returns and confronts the Maître d’ and the act continues with witty dialogue, audience participation and hit songs from the world of Musical’s and Opera.

The act lasts for approximately 30 minutes.

The Three Little Maids: This begins in the same way as The Two Little Maids but with the added option of having a Singing Waitress or having a Planted Guest on one of your tables, to really surprise your guests!

With the planted guest, it is pre-arranged that they have a believable disguise agreed with you beforehand, so that the people on their table really believe that they are, for example, ‘a long lost cousin who has been living in Australia for the past 10 years’!

She watches the Maître d’ and Chef’s performance, gradually getting more and more irritated and decides that she can sing better than the two of them put together and is going to show them how. She then produces a microphone from her hand bag and bursts into song from your guests table and joins the act. The ‘Guest’ is also available as a male option, which works fantastically and adds another dimension to the act.

All of the artistes who work for The Surprise Sopranos have been specially handpicked for their wonderful and versatile voices, as well as being fantastic performers. They have all played LEAD roles in West End shows or have performed with leading opera companies.

Duo or Trio

Includes:

I Feel Pretty- West Side Story
I Could Have Danced All Night
The Flower Duet- Lakme (British Airways Theme)
La Donne Mobile
All That Jazz- Chicago
Abba Medley
It’s Now Or Never
La Traviata (The Drinking Song)
Nessun Dorma

Plus, more songs from West End Musicals, Popular Opera and anything that gets the guests going!

Gordon Fox, Surprise Party, Roehampton
Hi Matt, Surprise Sopranos were excellent and exceeded our expectations - it was a total surprise to my wife and all of our guests thoroughly enjoyed the act and I would be very happy to pass on reccomendations.

Janet Wallbank DipM MCIM Chartered Marketer, Marketing Consultant, Yorkshire Investment Group Ltd
I can't tell you in an email how fantastic the Surprise Sopranos were. As a chartered marketer I know a little about exceeding expectations, and the Sopranos did this by miles. I hosted Leigh-Anne who was great company and totally convinced all the guests at my table that she was my niece from London. The sheer look of amazement on their faces when she got up and sang was priceless. The Sopranos certainly provided the WOW factor for our 20th Anniversary event and I have been approached by a number of guests who would like to book them for their functions - there is no greater compliment than that. Thank you so much ladies - if and when we need another act we will most certainly come back to you. P.S We also raised £10,595 for charity which contributed to the feel good factor.

Julia, Wedding
Just wanted to let you know that the performance yesterday during the reception was fantastic. The guests from 10 different countries are still talking about it now and have marked the singing as the highlight of the wedding having never seen anything like it before. It was difficult keeping things a surprise and the look on my aunties face when your wife announced she was the chef (My aunty is the HR director of the hotel) quote 'that's not my staff!' the penny didn't drop until the first song and you even had the Rome contingent sucked in for a while!! I looked around the room and could see my family crying with emotion during some of the songs. I knew from the website the quality was going to be good but it surpassed all expectations live. Thanks again for really making a memorable day.

Maggie, Wedding
Roger and I are going away for a few days, but I just wanted to let you know before we left that we thought the performance at Rebecca's wedding at Cain Manor on Friday was absolutely brilliant. I don't think there are enough superlatives to describe how wonderful it was: superb, absolutely terrific, amazing, thrilling, it absolutely made the wedding even more memorable. Everyone was talking about it afterwards, and will be talking about it forever. So many people said that it was the best wedding they had ever been to and they meant it! However, I have to say that I think it was all down to Soprana Bella. Thank you so very, very much.

Alex
The sales team said it was the best entertainment we've ever had in 15 years of conferences - and we've had casinos, salsa nights in fact pretty much everything. Thank you so much for contributing to making the conference such a success. If you would like me to write a formal letter/ testimonial let me know. I certainly will recommend you to other friends and colleagues.

Jeremy, Wedding
I said it last Sunday and I say it again, a VERY BIG THANK YOU. You made the evening and truthfully surprised everybody and more importantly, you surprised Cressida & Andrew on their Wedding Day. It has been the talking point from most of the guests in their ‘thank you’ cards and letters that we have received this week, together with complements on the venue and the fantastic meal they had. As you know we spent some time on the details of Cressida & Andrew’s ‘Big Day’ ourselves, so we very much appreciate others who do the same. We just feel you should know, as in every business you only hear from customers when something is wrong and rarely when something is right. We all need a ‘pat on the back’ as that only encourages us all to strive for perfection, which may be hard in your case, as you did so well! The organization and planning was so professional and I still feel the surname for the “guest” should always be Plant! The ribbing I have received from friend Peter has been intense and he vows to pay me back! Thank you again I hope that you get plenty of engagements from being at Cressida & Andrew’s “Big Day”

Tricia Angus
What an amazing show, our guests were speechless! You were the icing on the cake, many many thanks.

Illana and Arnold Eber
What an amazing performance. Thank you so much, you added enormously to our special day. You are all, apart from being exceptionally talented, very lovely people. It was an absolute pleasure dealing with you. Thanks so much for everything.

Alyson Lumb, Senior Group Management Assistant
I just wanted to drop you a mail to thank you so much for an outstanding performance on Saturday night. It was absolutely amazing, and everyone was completely wowed. Thank you also for being so flexible on the interaction with Richard, it was extremely believable (his reputation goes before him!) and added to the drama. You all have such fantastic voices, and we were literally gobsmacked. Thank you again.

The Surprise Sopranos have just returned from singing at Micheal Schumacher’s retirement party in Italy (where they performed ‘The Three Little Maids’), and they performed for Sheffield United FCs player of the year awards earlier in the year.

The Surprise Sopranos are also able to offer the following acts:

Solo Weddings Service - The Surprise Sopranos can provide a beautiful Soprano to sing Classical arias, Religious song’s and Romantic Love songs for your wedding service. The soloist can sing up to 5 songs for you during your service and will arrive self-contained with small music system and quality backing tracks. Alternatively, the singer may be accompanied by the church organ if you prefer. This option is perfect for both Church and Civil ceremonies.

Soprano Bella Solo - Leading Lady, Katrina Murphy, sings a selection of hits from West End Musicals, Famous Operatic arias and Famous Standards and Love Songs. This act usually comes in 2 x 30 minute sets.

Wonderful West End and Opera Gala - This really is for the connoisseur of Musical’s and Popular Opera containing Great Singers and Performer’s rolled into one! The act contains a combination of 1 Male and 2 Female singers or 2 Male and 1 Female singer performing hit songs from West End Shows, such as ‘The Phantom of the Opera’, ‘Les Miserables’, ‘My Fair Lady’ and ‘Chicago’, as well as Opera favourites, including ‘Nessun Dorma’, ‘La Donna Mobile’ and ‘The Flower Duet’ to name but a few. Usually performed in 2 halves of 30 minutes each.

Tailor-made Shows - The Surprise Sopranos are also able to create especially themed shows specifically for your event. They have previously created shows such as ‘Moulin Rouge’ with 5 dancers and a contortionist and most recently a show called ‘Shaken and Stirred’ for a James Bond charity ball. Here Katrina Murphy sang a selection of the best James Bond songs with 5 Bond girl dancers, a Ballerina on point and a Martial Artiste!

The Singing Firemen - This is a new and exclusive act to The Surprise Sopranos. The act begins when 2 fireman enter the venue during the event. They are there to check that the venue is complying with Fire Regulations and check the Fire Exits and the Fire Extinguishers. They decide the venue does not come up to scratch and they make an announcement to everyone that the event must be closed down immediately because the venue has not passed the Fire Regulation requirements. The Head Fireman exits to speak to the manager and while he does Fireman 1 decides that before they are closed down, he will seize the opportunity to burst into song with a fabulous operatic tenor voice, while he has the audience’s attention. The head fireman returns to catch him at it and decides to join in the act, trying to outdo his singing talent with his own. They pull up an unassuming guest or waitress to sing with them who also turn out to be a wonderful singer!

A hilarious act with music from ‘Nessun Dorma’ to ‘Saturday Night Fever’. Your guests will love it!

Please Note: The fees indicated below are approximate and based on a central location for each county. They are intended to provide a rough guide only and exact quotes can only be given once the date and exact location of your event have been provided.